Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by froh 8 days ago
"commodification" (and "industrialization" and "over-consumption") were just alternative terms they tried before settling on "dopamine fracking". that's it. and exactly because theses terms are not synonyms at all and exactly because they fit worse, the author settles on fracking: squeezing a ressource out of our brains no matter the collateral damage, as you then identified.